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Deepening Your Connection With Plants - Free Webinar
May
25
1:00 PM13:00

Deepening Your Connection With Plants - Free Webinar

Are you interested in the world of plants, herbalism, plant medicines, and wild edibles? Do you want to deepen your connection to plants and the green world around you?  Have you ever wondered about the stories of plants coming to people in dreams or revealing songs or visions?  Do you wonder about what kind of connection your ancestors had and to what plants?

I'm excited to announce that author and wilderness skills guide Nate Summers and I will be offering a Free Deepening Your Connection to Plants Webinar Wednesday May 25 at 1pm ET.

 In the free webinar, we will share simple and easy ways to connect to plants in your local bioregion.  This can enhance your journey to deepen your relationship plants no matter if you are a beginner or a seasoned herbalist. 

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Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket Book Event
Oct
2
10:00 AM10:00

Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket Book Event

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Experience the joy of discovering the healing plants that grow near you in every season and ecosystem. 

Learn about the wild medicinal plants thriving in our region from Liz Neves, author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press) – so much more than a field guide and unlike any other book like it for connecting with healing plants in this region!

Liz will show you how to make healing remedies with herbs found in the Northeast, supplied by Furnace Creek Farm. Signed copies of Northeast Medicinal Plants will be available for sale during this event.

“Both a field guide and one of the best herbalism how-to books I’ve ever read… a must for anyone interested in herbal medicine, foraging, and self-sufficiency.” ~ Leda Meredith, author of Northeast Foraging and The Skillful Forager.

Liz is an herbal educator, dream guide, meditation instructor, mom, and 18-year Brooklynite who leads monthly healing plant walks in Prospect Park through MINKA Brooklyn.

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Plant Allies for Dream Enhancement
Jan
26
2:00 PM14:00

Plant Allies for Dream Enhancement

Whether you dream vividly or don’t recall your dreams at all, in this workshop you will touch into the magic and healing potential of the Dreamtime. The Dreamtime is happening all the time, not just when we are sleeping.

In this workshop, you’ll:

  • Discover how to improve dream recall and become a more active participant in dreams with the help of our green allies, the plants.

  • Enjoy and directly experience the transformative medicine of plants that relax the nervous system (nervines) and stimulate dreaming (oneirogens). 

  • Learn simple techniques for dream recall and lucid dreaming. 

  • Get creative making dream sachets with herbs and crystals. 

Join us for an evening of fun, experiential learning and deepening of psyche awareness.


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